
During the 30th annual Health Choice Network’s Board Educational Conference, Dr. Daniels presented a poster on Florida Community Health Center’s antimicrobial stewardship efforts. The poster highlighted our efforts to improve appropriate treatment for urinary tract infections with emphasis on both the proper antibiotic and the proper duration of treatment. During this 2-year project, we were able to show an improvement in the appropriate antibiotic prescribed from 71% to 89% and improvement in the appropriate duration of treatment from 36% to 92%. We also decreased our broad-spectrum antibiotic use from 20% to 7%. Other wins included improving our specimen collection technique and creating county-specific antibiograms.